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Brought over Inferior Kabydes, forming other parts') o f Suse, not specified j Total. The tribes o f the Berebbers o f North A tla s altogether District o f T afilelt . . . Provinces o f the Marocco Empire,West o f Atlas Inland cities, towns, and ports Inhabitants. 10,005,000 3 36 ,0 0 0 10.34.1.000 3 ,000,000 650 ,0 0 0 10.34.1.000 8 9 5 ,60 0 Total population o f the whole empire, 1 „ • 1 j - including rT.a npil el, t 1} 14 .886.600 i Persons who have travelled through the country, unacquainted with the mode o f liv in g o f the inhabitants, may, probably, consider the above as an exaggerated s tatement: but it should be understood, that a stranger, in such cases, sees little o f the population, as the various douars o f Arabs are at a considerable distance from the roads, from which th e y always retire, to avoid the visits o f travellers, whom they are compelled, b y the laws o f hospitality', to furnish with necessary provisions for three days, without receiving any pecuniary remuneration; o f this fact travellers, in general, ha ve not been apprised, and have, in consequence, formed calculations which represent the population v e ry inferior to what it actually is. The western coast o f Marocco is defended with numerous rocks, level with the surface o f the water, which extend along the shore in various parts, from the Streights o f Gibraltar to Agadeer : we find, however, occasionally, in the intermediate places, an extensive beach, where the water is shallow, and the surf runs high. T he empire o f M arocco is separated from Algiers by' the riv e r Muluwia, which falls into the Mediterranean sea, in long. W . from London, 1 ° 30'. T he sea-ports o f this empire have but a limited commerce with foreign nations: and are consequently neither v e ry exten sive nor populous. Proceèding along the coast o f the Mediterranean, we come to the town o f Melilla, (the ancient Ryssadirium,) called by the Arabs Melilia, in possession o f the Spaniards, who have a garrison hère ; the country, in its v ic in ity , abounds with wax and honey, which latter is equal to that o f Minorca, and when kept a year, is nearly as hard and white as loaf sugar. The Goths, in whose possession Melilla was when the Arabs invaded the countrv, abandoned it ; and the latter, after retaining it some years, forsook it to dwell in their tents. T h e Spaniards took possession o f it about the beginning o f the 15th century. It was besieged b y Seedy Mohammed ben A bd allah, Emperor o f Marocco, in the y e a r 1 774, but without effect. T h e next town worthy o f notice is Bedis de Gomaira, situated between two mountains, at the bottom o f which there was anciently a eity called Bedis, supposed to ha ve been founded b y the Carthaginians. T he Arabs call it Belis, and some E u ro peans, b y a corruption o f the word, Velis, the name g iv en it in most o f our maps and charts. In the neighbourhood o f this place


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